Obama has once again revealed his elitist disdain for Reagan/lunch-bucket Democrats, and Midwesterners. While speaking at one of his San Francisco fundraisers he had this to say about small-town PA and the midwest in general:
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
In one fell swoop Obama basically characterized small-town PA and the Midwest as racist, xenophobic, gun toting, fanatically religious, Archie Bunkers. And why are they like this all-knowing Obama? Well it’s because they don’t have jobs.
So, gun owners only own guns because they are bitter over job loss, not because they believe in their Second Amendment rights, are seeking to protect themselves, or perhaps enjoy a good hunting excursion? People turn to religion due to bitterness over job loss, not because they feel a spiritual connection and moral conviction to some higher power? And every body in small-town PA and the Midwest is a racist, xenophobe?
Obama clearly does not understand nor connect with the individuals who make up the backbone of America: working class, small town people. These are the people who need a president who will be a steward of the economy, who offers policy specifics, who will provide affordable and universal health care. Wealthy elites can afford to buy into empty rhetoric, platitudes and vague promises; working class people can’t. Hope isn’t going to put food on the table. Hope isn’t going to pay the hospital bills. Hope won’t fill up the gas tank.
When these people hear his vague message of “change”, they think he’s talking about nickels and dimes. These individuals Obama chose to slur, like so many of us, are the ones who need a president who will look out for them the most…and he wonders why he will not be getting their vote.
Beverly O said,
April 11, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I am sorry that there are so many people like you who have to put a twist on everything a person says. If you could or I should say would open your eyes and see the truth (they say the truth hurts) and stop living on words. Words mean nothing. People like you put Bush into office twice because you believed his words and not the truth or his heart. Obama is a very brave man to put himself out there among the evil and mean spirit as well as the uninformed. His heart means well because he is truthful in his observations. People don’t have jobs and have been passed over by the Bushes and the Clintons. So how is that a slur!!
Robert Jones said,
May 6, 2008 at 11:28 pm
LETS GET REAL PEOPLE. OBAMA IS WHAT HE IS. AS A CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT, YOU CAN’T TELL ME THAT 20+ YEARS HASN’T RUBBED OF ON THE FINE SENATOR OR HIS WIFE?
HE SPEAKS OF CHANGE? WHAT CHANGE? TALK IS CHEAP. MY OPINION IS PEOPLE LIKE ME ARE TIRED OF CRY BABIES AND DEAD BEATS . I WILL VOTE FOR SEN. MC’CAIN IN NOVEMBER OVER OBAMA. ( IF HE IS THE NOMINATION!) HOWARD DEAN SHOULD BE REMOVED AS CHAIRMAN!!!
-ROBERT JONES
DEMOCRAT AND PROUD AMERICAN
Robert Jones said,
May 6, 2008 at 11:31 pm
…………….P.S. TO THE CRY BABIES AND LIBERALS: GET A GRIP AND GET OVER IT!
-ROBERT JONES
Robert Jones said,
May 18, 2008 at 8:21 am
I Can’t back a guy like this. He is too radical it looks like. If he wins, I will go with Sen. Mc’Cain.
Robert Jones